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HiI have tried various different things and I still can't get it to work. There are no syntax errors but the page doesn't load at all. A blank white page comes up and it says Done. This is the code i'm trying to use:

When I echo it it returns exactly the right thing but then what i descibed above happens. As soon as I put quotes around $direction and $limit the page loads but then the mysql error comes up saying that it does not have the right syntax being the quotes around $direction and $limit.